Duncanville Has Itself a $1M Red-Light Camera
God bless nonprofit journalism. The Texas Tribune put up an awesome application today that lets you look at red-light camera statistics and locations from all over the state.
From July 2008 through June 2009, Duncanville’s camera at U.S. 67 and Danieldale Road is the state champ, and the only intersection to generate more than $1 million in revenue. If Arlington’s Cooper Street and Pioneer Parkway can push just a little bit harder, it might be able to hit seven figures itself in the next year.
By comparison, Dallas’ biggest moneymaker was Lovers Lane and Northwest Highway (Location unknown: See update), with a paltry $777,735. (Wait, Lovers Lane intersects Northwest Highway?) Looks to me like there’s some real potential out there at Loop 12 and Northwest Highway. They generated $655,988 and still managed to have 54 crashes. Surely there’s some law-breaking that not even the camera is catching.
Time to pull this data into an Excel spreadsheet and have some real fun…
UPDATE: So Lovers Lane does intersect Northwest Highway, but there’s no traffic light there. Further, it’s not on the latest list of red-light camera locations from the city. So what intersection does Texas Tribune mean?
UPDATE UPDATE: Texas Tribune has answered in the comments. It’s Central and Lovers that brings in the most revenue of the red-light cameras in Dallas.
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Good catch. That intersection was supposed to be US 75 and Lovers Lane. Fixed here: http://www.texastribune.org/library/data/red-light-cameras/dallas/237/n-central-expy-and-e-lovers/
I got a ticket from the redlight camera there, and I imagine a lot of people get hit the same way I did.
Going west on Lovers Lane and turning right (north) onto the access road. I had a red light as did the northbound access road so I did not come to a complete stop as I turned right onto the access road.
I can’t believe an actual police officer would give a ticket for that; low probability of an accident from turning right on red so lot of people probably do it. In other words, a great place to put a red light camera if you are looking for revenue.
@Grant: Same thing happened to me. Twice. Sadly, I live a mile from it. Even if you cruise through at 5mph with no traffic coming, you’ll still get hit with the fine.
Same thing here, turning right on red without coming to a complete stop at Lover’s Lane and Central. That is really catching a lot of folks, I bet. Very infuriating.
I hate red-light runners, but I got nailed twice in two weeks at the Loop 12/ NW Highway profit center, apparently for turning right on red – with nobody coming for miles – a millisecond too soon. Now I just avoid the intersection completely. I hate to sound like a teabagger, but the whole thing smacks of a militia toll-collecting checkpoint in a third world country.